Regular Expressions 101

Group 1(\b\w+(?:\s+\w+)*?)

\ba Unicode word boundary

\w+a Unicode word character, repeated at least once

Non-Capturing Group(?:\s+\w+)*?

*?repeats the group contents below any number of times:

\s+a Unicode whitespace character, repeated at least once

\w+a Unicode word character, repeated at least once

Group 2([\p{P}\s]*\1)+

+repeats the group contents below at least once:

Character Class[\p{P}\s]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

\p{P}a punctuation character

\sa Unicode whitespace character

\1the text saved by group 1

\ba Unicode word boundary

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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Search reference

Regular Expression

(\b\w+(?:\s+\w+)*?)([\p{P}\s]*\1)+\b



    I, I, I am really wanting to go, but I I am not, am not am notty able to do it.

a b a b a b a b 

you, you*;!? .you

$1